Cutting CO2 emissions is the underlying real reason for placing a $10 fee on each barrel of oil produced on Federal lands, and is also the underlying real reason for many proposals to increase the gasoline tax.

The $10 fee, as well as any other proposal to increase gasoline taxes, will harm Americans, especially the middle class.

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Nothing to Fear explains why CO2 isn’t to be feared, why politicians are harming Americans by pushing the CO2 agenda, and that mankind has benefited from using fossil fuels and can continue to do so, perhaps for 1,000 years.

Nothing to Fear is available from Amazon and some independent book sellers.Link to Amazon: http://amzn.to/1miBhXy

Book Cover, Nothing to Fear

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Donn, Thanks for continuing your education effort, and the creation of interesting and informative emails.

Garry Buttner

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Power For USA wrote:

> Donn posted: “Millions of Americans must drive their cars to work every > day. Millions must also drive their cars to the store, to the dry cleaners > and to church. The low price of oil and the concurrent low price of > gasoline has been a boon to Americans, especially t” >

I’ve never been a fan of “sin taxes”, unless the primary reason is indeed to eliminate the behavior and not to raise funds for a worthy cause. The worthy cause is soon underfunded.

I’m curious if you’ve examined the idea of fee & dividend as espoused by the Climate Lobby? I’m cautiously in favor of this because 1) climate change/ocean acidification is real and 2) I’ve not seen any better proposals for near term change of societal behavior. Though I don’t believe it will actually work unless a small amount (.1 % ?) is used to employ people to oversee the money redistribution. http://www.climatelobby.com/fee-and-dividend/

The issue is whether climate change is caused by CO2 or whether it is natural. I will write about cause and effect next week, and demonstrate that CO2 is not the cause of global warming, AKA climate change.
Any type of carbon tax will distort how we use energy, and force the poorest among us to pay more for their electricity, gasoline, and oil to heat their homes. It will also increase the price of all the products that are made using oil and natural gas, such as fertilizer (increasing the price of food), and plastics.
The money raised from carbon taxes will never be returned to poor people. There has never been a tax that hasn’t found it’s way into spending bills.
Ocean acidification is another fear campaign, that has already been exposed by scientists and the founder of Greenpeace. See a recent article at http://bit.ly/1TF9UB5
I’m also ging to suggest you read my book Nothing to Fear, available at Amazon, (search for Nothing to Fear Bright Future).